cvd - new variant B.1.1.529 "Omicron"

Worrying new variant identified in South Africa.
It has many mutations on the "spike protein" and seems to be extremely transmissible.
Severity, vaccine evasion and long term effects currently not known.
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Coming into the Northern Hemisphere winter, this is just what the UK doesn't need
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